A hundred years have passed and Trattoria Salvetti is still located in Paroldo, Alta Langa. In the years leading up to World War I, Sebastiano Salvetti, the grandfather of Clelia, lives in Albenga. He works as a waiter at the larger restaurants. From the turn of the century he starts to work in Turin and Genoa. Here he worked in the ‘Grand Hotel des Genes’’ and he finds a job on the large ships of the Genoa-New York line. The work is good but he is often a long time away from home and his wife Margherita asks him to come back before the war breaks out..

He gets the opportunity to manage the “Trattoria dei Fiori’’ of Erminia Peirone. This woman, a widow with three children, gratefully accepts the Salvetti family to take over. In 1920 Sebastiano becomes the owner of the restaurant and after the birth of his son Silvio in 1922 he resumed his profession as a waiter. The Trattoria moved to a rented house in the neighbourhood and is run by his wife, assisted by Erminia and later by her eldest daughter Rosa.

Silvio dies far too early in 1979. His sister Rosa dies a few years later as well. The Salvetti family has survived in difficult times. In the eighties daughter Clelia, with the support of her mother Elvira, decides to continue the restaurant.

When she marries in 1986 with her husband Gian Marco, she makes a change to the type of trattoria. It does not renounce to the territory and its culinary tradition but it starts a revision of the dishes, a new arrangement of the place and a careful selection of the wines. It remains a small exclusive trattoria with thirty-five seats divided in two rooms. Salvetti serves an innovative menu with a Piedmont’s identity with some Ligurian influence’s. It features a varied seasonal menu, with the absence of deep-freezing (everything is prepared fresh and according to reservations). The choice of having only one waiter, Antonio, and one help in the kitchen, allows Clelia to take full care of the service and preparation of the dishes.